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Walking in Wisdom – Alumni Conference
November 5, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
About WALKING IN WISDOM
Saturday, November 5 – 9 AM – 3:30 PM
Doors open at 8:30 AM
Bethels Rock Church, Richfield
The one who gets wisdom loves life, the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper. – Proverbs 19:8
All MNTC Alumni are invited. If you’ve attended any of our programs for any length of time, you’re considered alumni! You’re also welcome to invite a supportive significant other to join you.
Wise Instruction
Two keynote sessions featuring Biblical and Practical teaching centered around stewarding the resources and relationships in our lives. Instruction from our new VP of Long-Term Programming, Pastor Willie Ramos, in the morning and his wife, Dr. Anna Ramos, our new Director of Community Outpatient, after lunch. Bios below.
Practical Workshops
Morning and afternoon breakout sessions with local professionals on the topics of personal finance, legal processes of pardons/expungement, building a faith filled family, and communication/boundaries for healthy relationships. (Please select your TWO preferred breakout sessions; one for AM and one for PM when you register).
Connection
Time to Connect and Worship with your MNTC Family is built into our schedule. Doors open at 8:30 for a time to connect with coffee and treats. A free lunch is provided by Red Savoy and our Spiritual Care Department. We need each other – come see some old friends AND meet some new ones!
Schedule & Speaker Bios
8:30 AM Doors open – Coffee & pastries
9:00 AM Welcome, Worship and Morning Keynote
Break with Coffee & pastries/snacks / Resource tables open
10:45 AM Morning Breakout Sessions (Expungemnets & Pardons / Financial Health)
11:45 AM Lunch / Resource Tables Open
12:30 PM Worship and Afternoon Keynote
Break
2:00 PM Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Building a Faith Filled Home / Healthy Communication & Boundaries)
3:00 PM – Wrap up and Prizes
Resource Tables
Afternoon Keynote Speaker
Dr. Anna Ramos
Dr. Anna is Mn Adult & Teen Challenge’s new Director of Community Outpatient & Mental Health Counseling. She comes to us with a love and passion to serve Jesus Christ and a vast experience that exemplifies her commitment to that service. Dr. Ramos has her Ph. D. in Professional Counseling, her M.A. in Professional Counseling, and a B.A. in Biblical Studies. She has served Adult & Teen Challenge and mental health counseling for 23 years, ranging from adjunct professor, having a private practice and being a TC Women’s Home Director.
She has been married to her husband, Willie Ramos for 22 years! They have 2 children. Anna loves anything to do with home decorating shows, bake-off programs, and CATS!
Morning Breakout Speaker
Gina Evans
Gina Evans is the Director of Advocacy at Mn Adult & Teen Challenge. She has over 25 years of experience with criminal legal system both inside and outside of institutions. Starting in 2006, she spent her professional career lobbying for earmark funding, developing relationships in the public schools and implementing Know the Truth (KTT), Minnesota’s largest and most utilized drug and alcohol prevention program. Last year KTT impacted over 55,000 young people in the MN and WI schools.
Since 2009, she has been developing and presenting trainings to the legal, behavioral health, and social service communities to help professionals better serve those suffering with Substance Use Disorder and Mental Illness. As an impacted person Gina believes her purpose in life is helping others who struggle with life controlling issues find freedom. Freedom starts with fair and dignified systems that hold all parties mutually accountable and reduce harm for all members of the community.
Afternoon Breakout Speaker
Anh Wienacht
Anh’s passion is people and their stories, most importantly, the healing that comes from knowing there is hope at the end of the story. Anh is a licensed associate marriage and family therapist with a M.S in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Post-Baccalaureate in Contemporaries Family Studies.
She believes that the complexities of each person’s story can be seen through the lenses of real and sustainable hope. Anh uses a holistic approach: incorporating the body, soul, and spirit to find a solution, a more healing story for you. Anh serves adults, adolescents, couples, families, and children dealing with mental health concerns such as depression; anxiety; social anxiety; relational difficulties; racial identity and reconciliation; trauma; addictions and recovery.
Morning Keynote Speaker
Pastor Willie Ramos
Willie Ramos is Mn Adult & Teen Challenge’s new VP of Long Term Programs. He comes to us from New York on his 25th year with Adult & Teen Challenge! Willie has his Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies from Central Bible College, now Evangel University, which equipped Willie for his long tenured ministry with ATC.
“Over the years I have gained valuable lessons professionally, academically, and spiritually that I desire to pour out in my new assignment at MnTC. Phillipians 1:6 states ‘being confident of this very thing, that HE who has begun a good work in you is faithful to complete it’. I have lived by this motto, ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish’. This phrase has kept me pursuing my God-given potential. After serving New York Adult and Teen Challenge, moving up the ladder from entry staff all the way to President/CEO and seeing thousands change their lives through ATC ministry, now is time to share my experience and expertise in the addiction field somewhere else. My wife and I have been called out of New York to now serve MnTC.
Morning Breakout Speaker
Twila Jensen
Twila is Mn Adult 7 Teen Challenge’s Senior Vice President of Finance. She has over thirty years of experience in progressive levels of financial management as well as leading others.
“I am passionate about empowering others and making a difference in the community around us. I enjoy using my strengths in making room for others, seeing their gifts / talents and encouraging them to use them to reach their full potential. And I love to teach Accounting.”
Afternoon Breakout Speaker
Pastor Sheldon Beilke
Husband, father and Campus Pastor at Bethels Rock Church Richfield. He grew up in the church but never had a real relationship with the Lord. After embracing a lifestyle in the streets, his next vice was to enlist in the armed forces to die in combat. God ultimately saved him when he was at his lowest point and called him into ministry. He has a passion for discipleship and helping others reach their greatest.
Register HERE by November 1st!
Questions? Contact MnTC Alumni Services at 612.238.6591 or alumni@mntc.org
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